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MARCH 28, 2019

But the fact that one of the main retail players on the planet is making a kiosk push in a growing, heavily populated market speaks to the international appeal of such devices. For instance, kiosks can increase consumer spending, no matter the market, according to various reports and QSR-focused kiosk research from PYMNTS.

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JUNE 22, 2020

In her new role, Kabakoff will oversee Lunchbox’s “go-to-market strategy” aimed at giving restaurants an alternative to third-party ordering sites. The hiring comes on the heels Lunchbox’s most recent capital campaign, which raised $2 million in seed funding.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Gresham House and Force Over Mass Capital led the round to bring Moteefe’s total financing to $12.5 Moteefe has built its own proprietary production software and plans to use the additional funding for expanding into new markets, including Australia.

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Chris Skinner

MAY 12, 2017

Here’s what they published: ‘The clock is ticking for Pakistan’s legacy banks,’ Chris Skinner, global fintech expert An independent commentator on financial markets and fintech through his blog, the Finanser.com, Chris Skinner is one of the biggest names in fintech today. BRR: How critical are the capital requirements?

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The automotive market is surging during the pandemic, and companies like Carvana are reaping the benefits. The company reported a stellar third quarter as used cars and contactless delivery are driving the market. Fast And Furious: Used Car Sales Surge For Carvana During Pandemic. SA Company Takes The COVID Pivot Outside — Literally.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Cava has around 30 restaurants in the DC, LA, and NYC markets, and its packaged dips and spreads are sold in more than 200 Whole Foods Market stores. Select VC Investors: Khosla Ventures, Social Capital. Select VC Investors: Cue Ball Capital, Valley Oak Investments. Select VC Investors: Otium Capital. sweetgreen.

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JUNE 15, 2016

YouTube alone would be almost impossible for any but the world’s largest brands to take on, and once all those other channels are in, well, user-generated content (UGC) might represent a great opportunity for brands, if only there were a place for brands to easily separate the wheat from the chaff.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The funding will be used to expand in Lookiero’s main markets of Spain, France and the U.K. Lookiero’s inventory includes more than 150 European brands, with the platform shipping more than three million items of clothing this year to seven European countries.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

With the recent global explosion in skincare and wellness products, there are all kinds of stories of how various entrepreneurs wound their way into the market. The brand they created was called Herbivore Botanicals. Today, the brand is very different than the soap-making operation that was formerly run out of its founders’ kitchen.

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JULY 3, 2020

Now all Lake needs to do is to create a marketing campaign that communicates all of this to the different customer segments. Donahoe is putting one of the world’s leading brands on a completely new, completely digital track. Despite the criticism the idea has received, the CEO and his team have read the market perfectly.

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APRIL 28, 2020

Xeeva’s enhancements to our products are extensive, making them standouts in the market,” said Xeeva SVP, Product and Business Development Vikas Shah. “We Recent enhancements include more pipeline models to grow spend analysis success on low-quality data and standard integration throughout a broad range of data sources, among others.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2019

z is winning in growth channels in developed and developing markets. In the United States, he said, that success means capitalizing on growth opportunities such as discount and club outlets. Local Brands and Marketing. A large priority for the company has been to reinvigorate its marketing approach.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

He said “the older generation that couldn't [use technology] or is not willing to shop in stores is also adopting digital” — one of the main reasons the adoption of eCommerce has accelerated so much this year. sellers to seek toeholds outside of America, taking advantage of an opportunity to boost business in markets with less competition.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

Last week, Constellation Brands purchased Empathy Wines , a direct-to-consumer (DTC) eCommerce business that sells wines from California vineyards. Brands see this digital shift in their numbers, even as stores have reopened and physical sales have started to increase. The Path Forward.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2019

As a record amount of capital has entered the local ecosystem in a significant rebound since 2016’s darkened funding environment, Indian tech startups are having a standout year with two months of 2019 left. India’s unlisted tech startups have notched $11.3 billion in funding this year, marking a considerable rise from $10.5

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APRIL 1, 2019

into the so-called online-to-offline rental ecosystem, with a market size upwards of Rs 20,000 crore ($2,889,400,000). “Until now, we were in the home rentals market through listings on both our platforms, Housing.com and Makaan.com. There are no immediate plans to change the brand’s name, he said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2018

The most popular time of the day when people drink coffee isn’t just a factoid: It’s a viable marketing strategy. When the iconic Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P) was looking to brand its bulk Brazilian coffee in 1919, it asked consumers when they drank coffee. As JCPenney grew, so did its private brands.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As digital and mobile technology changes the automotive market, vehicle subscription and online marketplace businesses are also growing, and undergoing changes. According to the report , the deal comes as Carro raised some $30 million in fresh capital. The trend is not confined to famous automotive luxury brands, either.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

More tacos in Peru and a new distribution center in Alberta — recent comments from the executives who run Taco Bell , Tim Hortons , Domino’s and other brands signal not only upcoming international expansion for quick-service restaurants (QSRs), but more spending for supply chain endeavors. and Canadian markets. “We’re

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JANUARY 8, 2020

But the general effort is something that Childs likes to call “drying as a service,” which speaks to the way that such waste must generally be dried before being shipped to a new market, wholesalers or other players in the supply chain. The next step is gaining more capital as the technology proves itself. “We

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2018

dollars on its balance sheet after it raised $4 billion in new capital late last year. The main focus of that funding will be expanding the company footprint globally, further developing their electric vehicle initiative and investing more aggressively in artificial intelligence (AI) tech.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

The digital-first shift means there are more options for smaller, direct-to-consumer brands, to find first-time customers from around the country or even the world. Here’s how some really creative D2C brands are using new tech to do that. Capitalizing On Direct To Consumer. But Sticky.io 13-14 Amazon Prime Day.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2020

The stage is being set, then, for consumers to pivot away from legacy banking toward trusted brands that, increasingly, are building out financial services. The company’s API, he said, enables users to create an own-branded debit card (not a co-branded one) into their apps. You can reward people in non-cash ways.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

According to CNBC , the retailer is “buckling under the weight of an onerous debt load and struggling to compete with better capitalized competition.” though they also operate under such brands as Motherhood Maternity and Pea in the Pod stores. “As The company owns 458 stores in the U.S., billion in 2013, representing a 2.10

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Bringing in $165 million in venture funding is a major event in the life of any startup, particularly if the startup in question says it wasn’t even in the market to raise funds — it was doing just fine on its own revenue. I didn’t go into the market with the idea to fundraise,” Nicodemus admitted. “We

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 11, 2020

OnDeck’s fire sale aside, recent deals at nCino, Black Knight and Ellie Mae are a shot in the arm to a market in need of some good news. 2020 is the wildest downward ride in the market since 1929, which, one would think, is taking its toll on the fintech ecosystem serving banks and credit unions. It’s one big sandbox.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

dollar and inflation issues in the Argentine market. The new global restructuring is designed to capitalize on the firm’s unique cross-border strengths to meet increasing demand from global consumers and businesses. Every market is different, and deal structures vary. That is also slightly down from the $1.39

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2018

” Bloomberg reported that under one structure that was discussed Careem’s executives would run the combined business and that one or both of the local brands would continue to operate. In the areas it operates it is mainly the leader, with Saudi Arabia its largest market. In another idea, Uber would buy Careem.

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Abrigo

APRIL 28, 2016

Small Business Administration (SBA) will recognize and honor the critical and life altering contributions of America’s moms and pops, manufacturing enterprises, Main Street retailers and entrepreneurs during National Small Business Week. Counseling: SBA provides free consultation and advice to help Main Street succeed.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And in leveraging Amazon’s scale as a platform — with millions of small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and even micro-sized businesses hawking pretty much everything under the sun — it might seem a “slam dunk” if, say, a financial industry powerhouse were looking to bring small business loans to a new market.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Model and social media celebrity Chrissy Teigen is, in many ways, the perfect brand partner for Target, as evidenced by her recent review of her new kitchen and cookware lines. Unlike her competitor for the title of Generations X’s Martha Stewart, Gwyneth Paltrow, Teigen has built a brand around being accessibly aspirational.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2016

The brand has always managed to have at least one of its three stores doing well. As this week’s Q1 earnings indicate, that is just not the case anymore — as all three of its brands reported anemic sales. Results for Gap Inc. have been a mixed bag for the last several years. Recently it’s been Old Navy.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

In the new Digital Banking Tracker , PYMNTS examines how startups are competing with legacy brands, social media services and even eCommerce companies that want to add financial capabilities to their platforms. Deep Dive: Challenger Banks Versus Legacy-Backed Digital Brands. Around the Digital Banking World.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Pricing also depends on more intangible factors such as sales, operations and marketing. Then there was the dependency on shipping, and warehouses, and related reliability issues – and the mall owner who took the time and capital to drive foot traffic. Pricing depends on supply and demand. Think that’s a tough way to do business?

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Social Assurance

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Our Annual Marketing and Compliance Survey and Report sought to better understand how some of these changes affected the financial services industry and how community financial institutions responded to the challenges. For more in-depth insights, be sure to download our marketing and compliance report by clicking the link below.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 8, 2022

Institutional and corporate money will go to higher returning alternatives such as money market funds. Last month we saw a skyrocketing of rates by some of the more aggressive banks (like Capital One), and we now see that in their deposit betas (below). Allowance for loan and lease losses (ALLL) remained steady at around 1.15%.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

The cross-border payment market is thriving, and trends are expected to continue over the next few years. Companies separated across borders want payments to be delivered on time so they can meet their payment deadlines, access capital and deliver products in a timely fashion. Around the Smarter Payments World.

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